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    I just started taking Zoloft a week ago for depression and anxiety. I've been reading around and found that a lot of people gain weight on this drug and other SSRI's. So far I have lost most of my appetite and am more active, I think I have even lost a couple pounds. I have read that people gain weight after a few months of taking these. I am scared about gaining weight from this drug in the future. Has anyone experienced weight loss or gain from anti-depressants? If so, where you excersizing or not? Did your eating habits change? What are some of the other side effects you have noticed?

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    kobi!!! whats up baby. i've been taking zoloft for awhile now for depression. i previously took prozac, that didnt work, but zoloft is great. i actually lost weight on zoloft too. it cut my appetite ALOT. like when i start eating something, even if im really hungry i just dont want to finish it. both my eating habits and my exercise habits are the same before i started on zoloft to now (while taking it) so i am a reliable source. also kobi i hope you know zoloft takes a few weeks to kick in 100%. i am taking 100mg tablets. so in conclusion i dont think zoloft will make you gain weight at all, ive been taking it for about 6 or 7 months and my weight has dropped a few pounds. i think you'll be fine.

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    One of the side effects from ALL antidepressants can be weight gain or lose, since these drugs affect the brain with our seratonin and dopamine etc. levels some of us will start to eat more, others will stop eating so much.

    You need to weigh yourself before starting the drugs, and while on them.

    Most people gain at least a few extra pounds, simply because most of the antidepressents help you calm down, meaning less anxiety and panic attacks, which burn lots of calories.

    But everyone behaves different, i had a friend on Prozac, and she was hyper!!! Now on Zoloft, and she is mellow. It's all about you, any person can go either way on these drugs.

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    My bf takes Zoloft, and I take Paxil. We've both gained quite a bit of weight since we've been on them but then again, we've also had some major lifestyle changes (college, semester in London, first apartment, etc). My weight gain probably wasn't from the pills but you never know. I actually feel like I have more energy now--if I wasn't so busy with work and school, I'd probably work out more (I did over the summer). But really, who knows?
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    also those of you that take zoloft what do you think of it? i like it, but i think it blots out all the things im depressed about and im kind of in a daze sometimes. if i miss a dose i get so sad, i will cry for no reason at all...etc etc. DONT miss a dose!

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    I have been taking zoloft for over a year now. I did not have any problem with gaining weight. My weight has stayed the same and I am actually in the best shape of my life. That is because of excercise. It does make me pretty tired though. Zoloft is given to anorexics sometimes because people who are severely depressed sometimes can't get up the energy to eat. I had a few times like that myself. Sometimes I go off of my medication. I need to stop doing that. Yesterday at work I started crying because I have been going off and on. You will definately cry if you go off of your medication cold turkey.
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    Seretonin controls our apetites as well as our sleeping/waking schedules and feelings of well-being. So, when you mess with it, you are messing with your sleep and your apetite. You may sleep or eat more or less. You probably won't gain weight if you don't change your eating/excercising habits.

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    No weight gain here, and I've been taking Zoloft for around 7 years now.
    I experienced temporary side effects of excess energy, insomnia, and delayed/more difficult orgasms. These wore off within a couple months.
    The only permanent side effect that I have noticed is an unpredictable intolerance to alcohol - every once in a while I find that I feel totally smashed after 1 or 2 drinks. It's not often, but does catch me off guard occasionally.

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    i've been on zoloft for i think going on 2 years..i didn't have any weight problems from it thank god...everyones chemical make up is so different anyways, ya know? i know some people on prozac and paxil and a lot of them have gained weight from that, while exercising the whole time...

    zoloft worked great for me for the first year..i know i need to either add another or try something else all together, because it just plain doesn't do crap for me anymore..but if i miss a few doses in a row, my temper is definitley out of control, so it does help with that....but i do think it kind of numbs your emotions...makes you somewhat 'cold' to a lot of things...my experience anyways...

    good luck with it!
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    I've been on Zoloft, Paxil, now Prozac with Wellbutrin. None of these caused any weight gain. In fact they curbed my appetite if anything.

    I've been on SSRIs since I was 18. It's not a magic bullet. I still become sad, I still cry, I still get depressed. A pill is not going to make someone happy, but it can prevent someone from falling into a hole that they can't climb back out of.

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    I'm starting to feel better about the weight gain issue. I've been reading a depression forum and people there say they have gained 30, 50, even 100 lbs! Some say they are still eating the same as they did before, but not one person ever mentioned exercise.

    So far the side effects have been minimal. I'm only on 25 mg and then go up to 50 mg in a week. I've been a little nausios, have less of an appetite, headaches, tons of energy, (I can't sit still so I end up working out), and my sleep schedule is more regular now than ever. I sleep for 8 hours then wake up wide awake. Before I slept 12 hours and didn't even want to get out of bed!

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    I was taking prozac for a few years, and I'd heard anti-depressants cause weight gain too. I asked my doctor and he said for the most part it may cause you to gain 2-4 lbs, however you will lose it in a month or so when your body gets used to it.
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    oh yeah, how coul i forget- i get pretty retarded after 2 or 3 drinks, which is ridiculous. you are NOT supposed to drink while on zoloft!!! it should say that on your prescription bottle. just like livenudegirlsunite said, its really bad to go on and off it. taking it regularly is a must. kobi you will be fine

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    Quote Originally Posted by miss george link=board=5;threadid=5693;start=msg61945#msg61945 date=1073729526
    That's nothing. The first shot of whiskey I had after starting on Zoloft caused me to experience projectile vomiting.

    I take Wellbutrin now
    whoa thats pretty bad... how is the wellbutrin working for u?

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    A lot of people gradually lose there eyesight and go blind too becaues of SSRi's. And this is an addictive drug and you will develop a dependence for it. Do you want to be on drugs for the rest of your life ?

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    As a matter of fact, blindness among many other things is an acknowledged side effect of SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). But it's lottery-style chances. I'm sure that any number of drugs have an acknowledged side effect of blindness, death, infertility, etc. However, the statistical incidence is so small that it's not a viable concern for a given case.

    On the contrary, in fact, diabetes is certainly a high risk factor for blindness. And diabetes and depression are often grouped. It's proven that SSRIs, by reducing depression, enable the diabetic to engage in better diet control, thereby reducing the risk of blindness.

    Having said all that, I do believe that SSRIs are over-prescribed. But for someone who's truly depressed, far better that they take SSRIs regularly than face the other high-risk effects of depression - bad nutrition, loss of sex drive, fatigue, loss of employment, loss of quality of life, suicide, and so on.

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    I don't mean to take attention away from Kobi's question, but I was wondering if anyone has had experience with Lexapro? Every other SSRI I've taken (Zoloft, Effexor, Prozac, Celexa) has given me panic attack like symptoms (despite also being on Ativan). Wellbutrin made me feel like I was on speed. Baddd. I know Lexapro is supposed to be an improved version of Celexa. But a few days into any anti-depressant makes me feel like I'm going crazy. Am thus afraid to try the Lexapro long term. Anyhow, any info would be great. Thanks :0.

    And I hope Zoloft works for you, Kobi. It didn't make me gain weight (was on it a very short time), but just very "weird" for lack of a better word.

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    Usually antidepressants may have a temporary effecto on appetite, particularly SSRIs may cut appetite down; anyway, remebrer that the full effecto of any antidepressant would take at least two weeks.

    BTW, the only antidepressant known to increase tremendously apetite (and therefore weight) is Remeron
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    ryan, what are you talking about??? "a lot" of people go blind?? which bullsh-t article did you get that from?. there are side effects with ANY medicine. i'm sure YOU have never taken any sort of pill. but then again, you probably wash it down with a shot of V8 or something. get a life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carmenNYC link=board=5;threadid=5693;start=msg62439#msg62439 date=1073927577
    ryan, what are you talking about??? "a lot" of people go blind?? which bullsh-t article did you get that from?
    It goes along with the theory: "92.87 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot."

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    miss george have you conducted any experiments of the long term affecto of taking ssri's? because you sure do seem to know it all. I wish is was as educated as you. Overwhelming information I have read shows a strong link between the use of ssri's and the decline in eyesight, the need for glasses, and ultimatly blindness. The reason I have read so much about this topic is because my mother started taking ssri's about 10 years ago when they were prescribing them like candy, and her perfect eyesight startred to rapidly fade. Nobody know why this was, but i started doing massive amounts of reasearch and found MANY other people who had massive problems with eyesight after talking these medications. I was simply warning the person who started this post that there are some MAJOR risk related to taking pharmaceuticals, and I certainly do not want her to end up losing her eyesight, of any of the other disasterous side-affect of pharmaceuticals. And no I do not drink v8, it is cooked and extermely high in sodium. I also do not partake in the use of any pharmaceuticals or OTC drugs, and I feel all the better for it...

    The outcome of my mother was we are now treating my mother very simply and very naturally. What she does is eat a cantaloupe everyday for breakfast. The mixture of vitamins in melons (especially cantaloupe) and the super high b-vitamins is a great way to beat mild-deperssion. If you are feeling suicidal than go for help, but if you are just feeling shitty and sad, try using this technique. Eat a melon a day, for 6 weeks and watch how you feel. It does work, don't knock it 'till you try it.


    Pharmaceutical companies are among the richest companies in the world. They DO NOT care about your health. Your ill-health is their well-being. In fact pharmaceutical companies often own cigarette companies, companies that sell junk food, fast-food, soda companies. They do also own all the factory farming. Go online and research this for yourself. It is a fact. So basically what they are doing is selling you garbage food that is mineral deficient and then selling you these little pills that temporarily cover up your symptoms. Their goal is to have every person in the world on their drugs at all times, and it it working. If they can pull this off (which they are) people will be so in a dazs they won't even realize what is going on. NO THANKS, i will eat my raw food, in fact soon I will be moving to hawaii and growing all my own fruits and vegetavbles that I eat personally and live in harmony with nature. I am one who sees right through all this bullshit. The people running these companies know it's all about MINERALS. That is the secret they don't want you to know. Forget all these little "south beach diets" "atkins diets" ect. If you want to be healthy you need minerals. The best sources of minerals is in organically grown produce eaten raw. It is so simple that people cannot accept it. When you cook spinach you smell sulphur. You cook the sulphur out of the spinach. Why. Most people are extremely deficient in sulphur. You get out of your body what you put into your body. If you are fully mineralized you will be a state of health far greater than you can ever imagine.

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    RYAN- if YOU have never taken any SSRI's or any meds for that matter, then how would YOU know first hand what the side effects are?? yeah, exactly- you wouldnt. both miss george and i know first hand about these medications, which by the way have nowhere near "major" risks; if they did, they would be swiftly banned by the FDA. all the side effects listed for zoloft RARELY occur. and the people that DO experience overwhelming amounts of the listed side effects almost ALWAYS have another reason to account it to- i.e., taking other medications that have harmful interactions with the SSRI.

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    Well acording to your link yous ssri companies are guilty to the number 1 rule of bogus science - "pitched to the media" And they sure do pitch there ads to the media portraying happy peple in beautiful places having fun and laughing with friends. And it's all because they take "zoloft" of another of those fancy named stupid little colored pills.

    The ones selling these pills are the ones sitting in their mansions on the beach, sipping drings in the sun, splashing in the pool while their Ferrari is beind hand waxed. And they are the ones laughing, laughing at you morons who fall for their scams. Keep taking your stuipid little pills for the rest of your depressed pathetic little lives. It's funny with all their technology and science they cant "CURE" anything, just give you a prescription for 200 a month every month for the rest of your life.

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    gee RYAN, you sound pretty bitter. maybe it's that raw food diet of yours. 200 a month? where did you pull that # from? it's actually 15 a month with insurance. This is a website for STRIPPERS, which you are not. beat it.

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    you say my diet is making me bitter bit ridicule me for saying diet is causing depression. How typical....

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